Dr Kylie Kingston
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Accountancy
Biography
Kylie is a lecturer and early career researcher within the School of Accountancy. Her research focuses on exploring ways to improve social and organisational conditions for marginalised people and stakeholder groups. Kylie integrates critical perspectives on accounting, accountability, evaluation and participation, into organisational practices and policies. She was a recipient of the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award for 2022 and a SAGE publication award in 2020.Kylie's research is interdisciplinary and collaborative. She has a 20-year background working in diverse educational settings and engages in research that spans accounting, accountability, evaluation, ethics, trust and education.
Kylie teaches across accounting research, financial literacy, and evaluation topics.
Kylie's industry experience spans education, arts, agriculture and advocacy organisations and includes volunteering, management, financial, governance and board positions.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Personal details
Positions
- Lecturer
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Accountancy
Keywords
Accountability, Accounting, Critical accounting, Evaluation, Nonprofit organisations, Beneficiaries, Participation
Research field
Accounting, auditing and accountability
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD(Accountancy) (Queensland University of Technology)
- Masters of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
- Masters of Business (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Journal Editorial Positions:
- Social Media Editor - Accounting Forum
- Social Media Editor - Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
- Editorial Board Member - Accounting Forum
- Early Career Reviewer Board - Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change
Memberships:
- Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR)
- Asia-pacific Critical Accounting Research Network (AP-CARN)
- Alternative Accounting Research Network (AARN)
- International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR)
- Australian Evaluation Society (AES)
- American Evaluation Association (AEA)
- Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)
Teaching
Unit Coordinator - AYN572 Program Evaluation in Third Sector Organisations, AYN471 Financial Literacy and Decision Making, AYN433 Research Topics in Accounting, EUN677 Evaluating Programs
Publications
- Kingston, K., Luke, B. & Vinnari, E. (2025). Understanding beneficiary evaluative capacity within nonprofit organisations through an immanent perspective. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 38(2), 643–673. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/252813
- Kingston, K., Rossi, S., Luke, B. & Williamson, A. (2024). Authentic Beneficiary Engagement in the Aged Care Sector: Advancing Non-profit Governance through Care. In G. Plaisance & A. Goujon Belghit (Eds.), Non-profit Governance: Twelve Frameworks for Organizations and Research (pp. 213–229). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/248248
- Kingston, K., Furneaux, C., De Zwaan, L. & Alderman, L. (2023). Avoiding the accountability 'sham-ritual': An agonistic approach to beneficiaries' participation in evaluation within nonprofit organisations. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 92. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206153
- Furneaux, C., Alderman, L., Kingston, K. & Luke, B. (2023). Examining the re-territorialisation of beneficiary accountability: Digitising nonprofit services in response to COVID-19. The British Accounting Review, 55(5). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/238511
- Kingston, K., Luke, B., Furneaux, C. & Alderman, L. (2022). A Reflection on Critical Methodology: Accountability and beneficiary participative evaluation in Third Sector research. Voluntas, 33(6), 1148–1155. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212429
- Williamson, A., Kingston, K. & Bennison, L. (2022). Similar or Different? Downward Accountability Across Civil Society Organisational Forms. Voluntas, 33(5), 1002–1014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/227594
- Williamson, A. & Kingston, K. (2021). Performance measurement, evaluation and accountability in public philanthropic foundations. Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 21(2), 101–119. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/209194
- Knight, R. & Kingston, K. (2021). Valuing beneficiary voice: Involving children living in out-of-home care in programme evaluation. Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 21(2), 69–84. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207913
- Kingston, K., Furneaux, C., de Zwaan, L. & Alderman, L. (2020). From monologic to dialogic: Accountability of nonprofit organisations on beneficiaries' terms. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 33(2), 447–471. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/128804
- Kingston, K., (2016). Development of a Child Evaluation Framework for early childhood services using deliberative democratic evaluation and the mosaic approach. Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 16(3), 25–34. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/103509
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Kylie, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Exploring Factors Influencing the Participation of Culturally Diverse Communities and Teenagers in Volunteerism in Australia
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Belinda Luke - Chinese Foundations: Strategic Alliance, Confucian Culture, and Charity Law
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Yuyu Zhang
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.